Door-securer.



No. 818,955. PATENTBD APR. 24, 1906.

J. R. HALL. DOOR SECURBR.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 9, 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN R. HALL, OF DE MOSS SPRINGS, OREGON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ROBERT J. GINN, OF MORO, OREGON.

DOOR-SECURER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24, 1906.

Application filed January 9, 1906. Serial No. 295,308.

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Be it known that I, JOHN R. I'IALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at De Moss Springs, in the county of Sherman and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Securers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of devices generally known as "door-securers.

Said invention has principally for its object to effect that purpose in a simple, expeditious, and effective manner; and to these ends said invention consists of certain structural features, substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed, and particularly pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a view showing the same as applied for practical use. Fig. 2 is a view of the device itself unapplied with the space compensating or filling-in plates in extended position, as when out of practical use. Fig. 3 is a view showing the device with these filling-in plates all folded inward upon the securer proper. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section produced centrally through the holding or securing dog.

In the disclosure of my invention, I employ a plate 1, preferably of malleable metal or nickel-plate for cheapness or economy, which is designed to be introduced between the door casing or jamb and the forward edge of the door .or closure in effecting the securing operation. Said plate is equipped or armed with numerous stout pointed pins or teeth 1 to penetrate the door casing or jamb as against any possibility of the dog relaxing its hold or grip thereon. Remotely from said pins or teeth the plate 1 is provided, about centrally of a preferably thickened portion 1 thereof, with a longitudinal slot 1 with a stop or projection 1, preferably rectangular, terminating one end wall thereof, said stop or projection also extending beyond said thickened portion 1 and engaging the outer surface of the door casing or jamb.

A dog or retaining contrivance 2, with one end suitably pivoted at the outer end of the slot 1 in the plate 1, is arranged to normally occupy said slot, it seating therein oppositely to the pin or tooth equipped side of said plate and having a stepped surface, as at 2 at its inner or free end to permit its thus being seated, with that portion of the stop answering to what may be termed the tread resting against the platethat surface or side thereof presented next to the door edge. The dog or holding contrivance 2 is preferably sloped off upon its outer surface toward the outer or pivoted end thereof, as at 2*, for facility in applying pressure thereto by the thumb or hand or otherwise when securing said dog against the door.

A number of supplemental plates or wings 3 3 are suitably connected or pivoted to the plate 1, each having for that purpose a narrow arm or extension 3 3, respectively, through which the pivoting-rivet, as at 3 is passed in effecting the connection therebe tween and the plate 1, one supplemental plate or wing lying flat upon the latter and the other supplemental wing or plate being adapted to be flat upon the aforesaid wing when the same are infolded. To permit the thus superposing of one supplemental plate or wing upon the other, one arm 3 is outwardly bent or offset to take the wing 3 carried thereby, out of alinement with the other wing 3.

It will be appreciated that the Wings 3 3 are for use to fill in additional space when occasion may require after the insertion in place of the tooth or pin equipped plate 1. One or both of the wings or plates may be thus brought into use as may be required, and a third or additional wing or wings may be applied to the plate 1 by displacing the present pivoting-rivets and substituting therefor others of proportional greater length, &c.

I claim 1. A device of the character described, comprising a gripping-plate having an axial slot remote from its gripping portion and an offset stud or stop terminating the inner end wall of said slot and extending beyond the latter to rest upon the door-facing, and a pivoted dog arranged to enter said. slot and having a stepped inner end adapted to engage the door, said plate and said stop.

2. A device of the character described, comprising a gripping-plate having a longitudinal slot and a stop projecting outward from an end Wall of the latter, a pivoted dog name to this specification in the presence of arranged Within said slot and having a two subscribing Witnesses. stepped free end, one of said steps being adapted to rest upon said gripping-plate, and JOHN HALL 5 pivoted Wings 0r plates effective for filling-in Witnesses:

purposes. 7 O. L. VAN KIRK,

In testimony whereof I have signed my S. A. LIVERMORE. 

